“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
— Shel Silverstein (The Giving Tree)

With Earth Day just passing on April 22nd and Mother’s Day coming up on May 9th we have a chance to reflect and pay homage to the gifts of Mother Earth, our human mothers and The Universal Divine Mother.

Often, I feel that life coaching in its most developed form has more in common with midwifery than it does with traditional life coaching. Like so much on our planet, a great deal of coaching is more masculine, yang or focused on doing. Life coaching and even hypnosis that embraces the Feminine Divine tends to be more yin, gentle and mindful. With an embrace of this kind of practice, the life coach helps the client to give birth to the truth of who they are; which ultimately is expressed as a marriage of masculine and feminine aspects.

If we intend to birth the Earth Mother within, we will want to be more deliberate about our choices in healing Pachamama or Gaia, our living Mother Earth. We will notice that any changes that we make will propel us forward to make the next choice in alignment with our vision of healing the planet. Like any kind of effort motivated by compassion and love, we often find outcomes to be exponential. For example, if we commit to not using plastic grocery bags, we may be inspired to plant a tree and then a garden. Later, we may take great strides towards sustainable living and eating very close to the earth. (I’ve recently rediscovered consignment shopping. Funnily enough, when declining a plastic bag at the consignment shop for ecological reasons, the shop owner was so impressed she gave me 15% off my entire purchase!).

When we celebrate The Divine Mother we may choose spiritual deities or human foremothers. We may choose Our Lady of Guadalupe, Quan Yin, Ma Durga, or Mother Mary to help birth our Divine Mother. Of course, there have so many human mothers who have blazed a trail of awakening and higher consciousness such as Maya Angleou, Kiesha Crowther (Little Grandmother Wisdom Keeper), Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Tubman.

Alicia Bay Laurel is one of those incredible awakened foremothers. Alicia is a woman who helped pave the way for conscious planet living, which of course there is a louder call than ever for. Many of you will be familiar with Alicia’s many works. Her classic work “Living on the Earth” written in 1971, is more relevant and inspiring today than ever. I love the communal aspects of her book. In fact, I have now taken to calling up my best girlfriend at least once a week to ask rhetorically “Remind me why we are not living in an intentional community and are trying to sustain our families alone?” I aspire to put into practice as many of her ideas as I can. I love the “getting to back to Mother Earth” philosophy as opposed to the “human conquering earth” attitude which has led us to make many assumptions about consumerism which have cost us all dearly.
As we enter into the second decade of the new millennium, it has become increasing clear that we have tapped Mother Earth’s resources, much like in Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”. We are all being forced now to change our minds and hearts because of the changes in our environmental, financial, emotional and spiritual landscapes.

Many profess this to be a time where a real sweet spot exists, an evolutionary juncture during which we make changes in our hearts and minds, embrace the Divine Feminine and subsequently heal the planet as we begin to appreciate Mother Earth.

© Jeanine Austin, PhD, CHt
Life Coaching and Hypnosis
www.SimplyDivineSolutions.com

Love Centering Hypnosis based on A Course in Miracles (10 CD Series)

If you have an interest in A Course in Miracles I woud be happy to send you a free Mp3 from my new hypnosis series via Dropbox. Just inbox me with your email. Testimonials for the packaging are welcomed! The launch will be in approx. 3 weeks! Please let your friends who may be interested know!

Love Centering Hypnosis based on A Course in Miracles (10 CD Series)
Here are the topic headings!
1. Love Centered Relationships (Indications: the desire for Holy relationships)
2. Liberation from Suffering (Indications: releasing perceptions of suffering)
3. Ego Liberation (Indications: the desire to choose love over fear)
4. Separation (Indications: feeing lonely, different, alone, isolated)
5. Creativity (Indications: removing “blocks”, inviting inspiration)
6. Guilt & Shame (Indications: releasing guilt & shame)
7. Judgment & Forgiveness (Indications: releasing judgment, forgiving self & others)
8. Opening to Miracles (Indications: needed shift in perception)
9. The Body (Indications: aging, weight, shape issues, body differences)
10. Realigning with Peace (Indications: desiring peace)

Jeanine Marie Austin, MSW, Ph.D., C.Ht. Master’s of Social Work, Doctor of Life Coaching & Certified Hypnotherapist
SimplyDivineSolutions.com

When we are feeling limited, frightened, or restricted in some way, we might choose to contemplate the quality of spaciousness. Spaciousness is about limitlessness, expansion, and wholeness. For the spiritually-minded, the contemplation of spaciousness may help us to embrace or become one with our Source.

If we allow ourselves to imagine ourselves, no longer as separate entities with physical parameters, but as part of the universe’s holographic whole, we create a sense of freedom and inner peace. Much of our suffering comes from seeing ourselves as separate, limited, different, or lonely. This practice of contemplating spaciousness through a boundless mind perspective helps us to correct these thoughts and brings us into a mental and spiritual state of unity and oneness.

We may be able to extend compassion to others through the frequent contemplation of spaciousness. In Buddhism, the embracing and encompassing of others through spaciousness is called “the practice of equanimity.” In her book, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Pema Chodron writes, “In practicing equanimity, we train in widening our circle of understanding and compassion to include the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.” When we judge others or hold negativity (often experienced as tightness somewhere in the body), we demonstrate our belief in separateness. In contemplating that our sister is really ourselves, this expanded awareness helps us to recognize that judgment and anger are the sneaky agents of separateness.

A spaciousness perspective may help us to reduce our conflicts with others. Through the practice of equanimity, we might see someone who is bringing up for us untoward feelings, as a teacher, disguised but really ourselves, who is showing us the path to unity. We might ask ourselves “Could we be bringing up unconsciously something in our experience with her that needs healing? Might we make peace with all others and recognize the interconnected and expanded possibilities we have at our finger tips?”

Many times women come to coach with me because they are at crossroads in their lives. They want to be liberated from restrictive identities and a vague or profound sense of disconnection and numbness. The contemplation of spaciousness is often a helpful practice for them. Interestingly, these clients also often want to de-clutter their homes and offices in order to create open spaces. Sometimes a literal de-cluttering process is started in order that metaphoric (mental and spiritual) spaciousness can begin.

(c) Jeanine Marie Austin, Ph.D., C.Ht.
Doctor of Life Coaching, Certified Hypnotherapist
Simply Divine Solutions
Life Coaching and Hypnosis Worldwide

http://www.SimplyDivineSolutions.com

(480) 491-0770

Free Consultation Available

I was born in August of 1965 in the sweltering heat of Opelika, Alabama. Perhaps surprisingly, the year 1965 and the state of Alabama were to be auspicious for The Civil Rights Movement.

In 1965, the Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama marches were comprised of three marches that marked the peak of the United States Civil Rights Movement. Many prominent leaders were involved in these marches, which were born from the voting rights movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Hosea Williams.

About 13 years ago, I made the pilgrimage with my mother to the Martin Luther King, Jr. death site and now museum in Memphis, Tennessee. My mother and I were engaged in conversation when we looked up to see that we had pulled into the Lorraine Hotel parking lot and were both instantly transported when we gazed upon the second floor hotel railing and could easily visualize the iconic image from 1968 with the three men pointing in the direction of the gunshots that killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Minutes later, I actually stood on the balcony where Dr King, was shot and killed. I could still feel the intense energy of purpose and the reverberation of the man who once had a dream for all of us to live in peace and harmony.

When we contemplate the almost unimaginable courage it took for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to give the famous “I Have A Dream” speech it leaves every last one of us moved. Acknowledging the set backs and trials and tribulations of the movement, he implored us:

“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

Let us open our hearts to each other, especially to those in need of compassion and service as we celebrate MLK Day.

To watch the speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

© 2011 Jeanine Marie Austin, Ph.D., C.Ht.
Doctor of Life Coaching, Certified Hypnotherapist
Simply Divine Solutions
Life Coaching and Hypnosis Worldwide

http://www.SimplyDivineSolutions.com

Tags: Alabama, civil rights, Dr. Jeanine, Dr. King, dream, life coaching, Spiritual Coaching, Universal laws

Thanks to Hada Moreno who re-edited my book for children in orphanages. This version of the book is only in Spanish. Feel free to pass it on to any orphanage/residential home you may know of in any Spanish speaking country. Please contact me at jeanine@simplydivinesolutions.com for your free copy.

Jeanine Marie Austin, Ph.D., C.Ht.
Doctor of Life Coaching, Certified Hypnotherapist
Simply Divine Solutions
Life Coaching and Hypnosis Worldwide

http://www.SimplyDivineSolutions.com

(480) 491-0770

Free Consultation Available until February 15th 2013

Today many of you have contacted me with questions about a program for the new year. I recommend highly The Alma Answers: Getting in Touch with Your Soul’s Wisdom. It is a 21 week home study course for only $99.00. Here is more information. If you want to do the Course again-let me know & I will send you the new codes (FREE). Start the New Year out on a wonderful note!!

http://www.simplydivinesolutions.com/alma/

Jeanine Marie Austin, Ph.D., C.Ht.
Doctor of Life Coaching, Certified Hypnotherapist
Simply Divine Solutions
Life Coaching and Hypnosis Worldwide

http://www.SimplyDivineSolutions.com

(480) 491-0770

Hello Everyone! As of February 1, 2013 I will not be taking on any new clients for hypnosis or life coaching. I am now pursing other endeavors. However, I will have a hypnosis series based on A Course in Miracles coming out in the New Year. Some of you have worked with me for years! Many of you have been incredibly supportive of each and every development from Simply Divine Solutions since 2005. I truly appreciate each and every one of you.
In gratitude, appreciation and LOVE, Jeanine

Jeanine Marie Austin, Ph.D., C.Ht.
Doctor of Life Coaching, Certified Hypnotherapist
Simply Divine Solutions
Life Coaching and Hypnosis Worldwide

http://www.SimplyDivineSolutions.com

(480) 491-0770

In order to bring their lives into relative balance many of my clients are embracing yin-based coaching.

Much like the “slow food” movement, yin coaching has become increasingly popular. Slow food has become a very popular in the culinary world. Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse has been a leader of this way of eating and thereby living. “Waters has produced eight cookbooks, but she’s more famous as the mother of a movement that preaches about fresh food grown in a way that’s good for the environment. The movement, now called “slow food,” is a healthy alternative to “fast food.”” (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/13/60minutes/main4863738.shtml)

The word “yin” is more associated with negative, submissive, passive, dark, cold and wet qualities. Much of life coaching and personal development has been very “yang”. Hard driven and hard-bitten it is goal oriented and dominated by striving, reaching and making things happen.

Carrot driven motivations are often desired instead of “stick” motivations. When people are motivated by a positive and even playful focus, they open themselves up to creativity and of course happiness and joy along the way.

Use of perceptive intuition and subtle body awareness may be considered more yin or feminine in nature. This is not about gender, but more of what may be considered feminine or masculine energies.

Jeanine Marie Austin, Ph.D., C.Ht.
Doctor of Life Coaching, Certified Hypnotherapist
Simply Divine Solutions
Life Coaching and Hypnosis Worldwide

http://www.SimplyDivineSolutions.com

(480) 491-0770

Free Consultation Available